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RASCL Coffee Hours engage with our communities for the purpose of information sharing and networking. We typically feature a presentation on best practices, emerging topics, new projects or funding opportunities, and more.

Past presentations are available below. Virtual Coffee Hours are recorded and are available here.

 

 

Marsh Migration: A Survival Mechanism to a Changing Climate

Olivia Allread

DNREC Division of Watershed Stewardship

October 23, 2025

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Delaware Land Protection Coalition (DLPC)

Michelle Koenig,

Delaware Center for the Inland Bays

June 13, 2025

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Developing a Community Sustainability Plan

 

Lee Aiken, DNREC Division of Climate, Coastal and Energy

February 2, 2024

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DE Database for Funding Resilient Communities

 

​Nusrat Tabassum Mohana

RASCL Intern​​

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Summer 2022

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Delaware's

Climate Action Plan

Susan Love, DNREC

Maggie Pletta, DNREC

March 4, 2022

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Risk

Rating 2.0

Rich Sobota, FEMA

David Warga, DNREC

September 21, 2021

 

 

 

CoastSnap​

Ashley Norton

DNREC

February 26, 2021

 

 

 

Flood

Insurance​​

 

David Warga

DNREC

September 20, 2019​

 

 

 

4th National

Climate Assessment

Ellen Mecray, NOAA

Danielle Swallow, DE Sea Grant

February 5, 2019

 

 

Community Fire Hazards, Protocols, and Emergency Preparedness

 Sam Topper,

Delaware Forest Service

October 23, 2025

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Dune

Preservation

 Jennifer Luoma Pongratz

DNREC Shoreline and Waterway Management Section

April 4, 2025

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State Planning

Overview

David L. Edgell, AICP 

Delaware Office of State Planning Coordination

December 7,  2023

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TEDI & Urban and Community Forestry Program

Catie Soriano, DNREC

Kesha Braunskill, DFS

July 15, 2022

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Multisolving

Dr. Elzabeth Sawin,

Climate Interacticve

July 14, 2021

 

 

 

Tax Ditches &

DNREC Drainage Program

Brittany Haywood

DNREC

April 27, 2021

 

 

 

BRIC

Program

Karen Montes-Berrios

DEMA

 

September 28, 2020

 

 

 

Urban & Community

Forestry Program

Kesha Barunskill

Delaware Forest Service

September 20, 2019

 

 

Delaware Conservation Blueprint

 Will Helt,

The Nature Conservancy

June 13, 2025

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I-ADAPT: Individual Adaptation Decision And Planning Tool

 

 Jordana Cutajar, DNREC Div. of Climate, Coastal and Energy

September 19, 2024

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Grant Assistance

Program (GAP)

Chase Barnes, Institute for Public Administration, University of Delaware

November 16,  2022

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2022 Sea Level Rise

Technical Report

Jamie Carter, NOAA

Supryia Khadke, NOAA

Billy Brooks, NOAA

June 10, 2022

 

 

 

Coastal Resilience

Design Studio

Dr. Jules Bruck

University of Delaware

April 27, 2021

 

 

 

Project Drawdown​

Elizabeth Bagley, PhD

Director of Drawdown Learn

February 26, 2021

 

 

 

Flood Planning

Tool

Gina Tonn

DNREC

September 28, 2020

 

 

 

Brownfield

Development

Jill Williams-Hall

DNREC

September 20, 2019

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